When Ladies Meet (MOD)

When Ladies Meet (MOD)What happens When Ladies Meet? If the ladies are Best Actress Academy Award winners* Joan Crawford and Greer Garson, expect classic entertainment. Glamorously gowned, exquisitely coiffed, the two screen legends share a heart to heart on sex, men, fidelity and wedlock in a sophisticated comedy drama set among the well to do and the done to. Crawford plays Mary, a novelist whose latest work extols the virtues of extramarital amour. Her inspiration may

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